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You are referring to old school Zionists, the new generation do exactly this sort of shit.

There are lots of old texts resurfacing, stuff by Ben Gurion, Jabotinsky and others, most were spearing Zionism, and they all reasonably discuss coexistence. It's a meme of sorts with left wing and human rights Israeli Facebook pages.

A logical person has no problem acknowledging that good neighboring and descent human behavior is a good first step towards a better life. Someone on the other side of the political map of reason might choose to lynch kids or throw a molotov cocktail into a taxi cab full of people.

It's not Palestinians fault, they're opressed and underdeveloped - it's not like they can do much on the political or fiscal arenas. Their influence and harm is only in violence.
Justified or not, with better alternatives or not - I'm not to judge.
Israelis are only now starting to feel the oppression of our regime, be it in form of police brutality, unjustified taxation, new laws that prevent basic human rights... I can go on and on.

As to old\new Zionism; my depaerted grandfather came to Israel in search of a Zionistic reality, the dream he had back in the Russia. His legacy to me was of loving the land, but equally loving the people, not just the Jews, all of the people. Love returns love, respect brings more respect. This is something that our current leadership tends to forget, even regarding its own citizens. Our human rights are gradually dissapearing, leaving us in a similar situation with that of our neighbors.

Gaop your heart seems to be in the right place, and I can see that your headline echoes the wording in the JPost article -- 'savage fight between Jewish and Arab teenagers'.

But come on man. Does this sound like a 'fight between teenagers'?

Does that description convey the reality of what happened here?

Or is it intended to convey a notion that 'both sides' were equally responsible. It was a fight 'between them'.

No, it was a brutal racist hate attack by a mob of Jews who cursed and then stomped a much smaller group of non-Jews.

One Jewish observer called it a 'lynching'.

Picture a racist white mob in the old American south cursing and stomping some non-whites. Would we call that a 'fight between them'?

....dozens of Jewish youth shouting curse words at three Arabs and then a fight broke out.

"When one of the Arab teenagers fell to the floor, the teenagers continued to hit him in the head, he lost consciousness, his eyes rolled, his angled head twitched, and then those who were kicking him fled and the rest gathered in a circle around, with some still shouting with hate in their eyes"...